Please can you be honest. Making cake toppers for dd birthday, should I give up now (pics attached)

[Cherrymuffiny]

Trying to make cake toppers for my dd Snow White birthday cake. If it was just at my home I wouldn’t care how bad they are but we’re going to a restaurant with a load of friends and I am a bit self conscious about this cake and everyone else seeing it and secretly laughing at it.

i feel like these are horrendous and thinking of just giving up and going Tesco ha! Pls tell me the truth should I give up while I’m ahead?!

I think they're fab honestly! I would be so so proud of them. I literally don't see how you could even improve on them? They have so much character and they're fascinating to look at. Keep going!

If your DD will love them (and I am sure she will) then that is what counts. If your friends laugh or sneer, not sure they would be people I would want to be friends with.

DS would ask for requests for his birthday cake theme and I would do my best and he loved them and loved the fact that I (and sometimes DH) made the decorations. I look back at the photos of them fondly (but I would have wanted my money back if a professional cake decorator had made them!)

@ZipZapZoom dopeys traumatic shit, so funny. I honestly am unhappy with them. Looks like a mixed bag on who thinks they’re 1/10 vs 5/10 :-) appreciate all the responses though

Clearly making cakes is not my calling 😂 my family & friends will first laugh behind my back and then probably about 3 years later the stories of how they laughed at my shit cake will all spill out. Reasonable if the cake is that bad …

@Cherrymuffiny - I honestly thought your photo was the reference image and I'd scroll further and see your attempt. They're damn good. Honestly.

Moreover, if my mum had made cake toppers for me, my adult heart now would be bursting. Please keep them.

I'm glad my comments gave you a laugh and you took it in the light-hearted manner it was intended.

Honestly who cares if people laugh, your child will just love the fact you made the effort and those memories make the best anecdotes later on. Why have a Dopey who looks perfect when you can have that Dopey. 😅

No! They're great! She'll love them. I'd have been delighted if my mum did that for my birthday when I was young.

Even if they were shit, who cares?

Your daughter will love it, have a great time

Ffs 🙄

I think they look great. Honestly, I don’t know when the tide turned and people expected home baking to look like a professional cake.
Id be very proud of those and impressed if someone else did them. If you know people who would laugh at your efforts then they’re not nice people…

I’d be really happy with myself if I could make those! The main thing is I’m sure your DD will love it.

I think they look brilliant & it shows way more care than just shop bought

way better than I could do, I would be secretly impressed if my friends could pull them off… and then tell them how impressed I was!

If you genuinely think friends might laugh at you behind your back about these…. please sack them off, they aren’t worth your headspace.

I think they look really good and I'm sure your DD will love them. I used to make all my DDs themed birthday cakes, they may not have been perfect, but they are memories you wouldn't have if they had been bought. There was a particularly wonky Thomas the tank engine I remember...

They are pretty good!! Don't give up. Much more character than buying a cake from Tesco. Keep going....

They look great.

Before I even read the post I saw the picture and I knew exactly who they were.

They are great. It’s this sort of thing which kids remember. That parents tried and put in the effort. She’ll appreciate it even if not now when she’s older. My mum always home made my birthday cakes and I remember them all.

I love them!

I think they look great and better than most people could do. You’re not a professional baker, you’re someone making a cake for their child. Think about what you want her to learn from you.

OP, please can you come back and show us the full set when you've finished? Honestly, I think they're fantastic and I'd love to see the other five.

I had never heard of a cake topper before. I think they look great.

Any attempt of mine would probably look like Morph

I think they're wonderful! You've put so much effort in and she'll be thrilled :)

Her family would have to be pretty horrible to be "secretly laughing" at a mother's efforts to do something nice and thoughtful for her child's birthday.

Ooh yes please do show us the finished product! I bet it will look fabulous!

I think they look fab @Cherrymuffiny .

I 100% could not do anything have as good.

I'm sure your DC will love them.

I think they are brilliant!! Well done!!

They are somehow really very good and a bit 🫣 at the same time.
Really amazing considering it's not what you do. Not many people could do anything close to this good.
But also kind of bad 😂